n.
A self-evident truth. See synonyms at cliché.
truistic tru·is'tic (trū-ĭs'tĭk) adj.
truism
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noun
- A trite expression or idea: banality, bromide, cliché, commonplace, platitude, stereotype. See surprise/expect.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
an obvious truth
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A truism is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device.
In philosophy, a sentence which asserts incomplete truth conditions for a proposition may be regarded as a truism. An example of such a sentence would be: "Under appropriate conditions, the sun rises." Without contextual support — a statement of what those appropriate conditions are — the sentence is true but uncontestable. A statement which is true by definition ("All cats are mammals.") would also be considered a truism. This is quite similar to a tautology in which the conclusion of a statement is essentially equivalent to its premise, a statement that is "true by virtue of its logical form alone".[1]
The word may be used to disguise the fact that a proposition is really just an opinion, especially in rhetoric. A saying about people or an accepted truth about life in general is also a truism.
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - selvindlysende sandhed
Nederlands (Dutch)
waarheid als een koe
Français (French)
n. - truisme
Deutsch (German)
n. - Binsenweisheit
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κοινοτοπία, αυταπόδεικτη αλήθεια
Português (Portuguese)
n. - truísmo (m), banalidade (f), vulgaridade (f)
Русский (Russian)
трюизм, факт, не нуждающийся в объяснении, общеизвестный факт
Español (Spanish)
n. - truismo, perogrullada, axioma
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - truism, plattityd
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
自明之理, 老套, 老生常谈
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 自明之理, 老套, 老生常談
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 진부한 문구, 뻔한 소리, 자명한 이치
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) الحقيقه ألبديهيه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - אמיתה, אמת ברורה
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